Yes, providing they are AZW ebooks (a small fraction of Kindle ebooks are in the TOPAZ format, which is locked to the Kindle).
*snippage*

Wallcraft, with all due respect, (and you know how highly I respect you), that "small fraction" happens to be made up of most of the books I want to read that I can't get anywhere else (imagine frustration here). So it's not such a "small fraction" to me. It's extremely frustrating to me when everyone discounts Topaz as being a trivial problem, when it isn't. Kindle for PC at least lets me access those titles, which I couldn't before, but I'm still stuck reading them on only on my PC or netbook, I can't format shift them to use anywhere else (like my EZ Reader). So, yes, out of all Amazon's titles, the ones with Topaz may be a "small fraction". But in my wishlist on Amazon, I'd estimate at least 3/4 of them are Topaz. Not quite so small a fraction anymore...

So, yes, out of all Amazon's titles, the ones with Topaz may be a "small fraction". But in my wishlist on Amazon, I'd estimate at least 3/4 of them are Topaz. Not quite so small a fraction anymore...

I agree, and I have made the related point in other posts that some categories are more TOPAZ heavy than others.

No matter how many there are, the primary problem is that TOPAZ ebooks are exclusive to Amazon. So if you want that particular ebook, Amazon is the only game in town. Having Amazon create a TOPAZ ebook is convenient for publishers, but it locks out the rest of the ebook market. I have seen a few TOPAZ titles replaced by AZW, when the publisher got round to producing their own ebook, but not very many.

There are two technical hurdles to format shifting TOPAZ

circumventing the DRM

converting to another format

In both areas, there is no publicly available documentation from Amazon. The two reinforce each other, since why strip the DRM if DRM-free TOPAZ ebooks are still locked to Kindles and why try to format shift when most (all?) TOPAZ ebooks have DRM.

I tried to follow the instructions on Apprentice Alf's blog but I couldn't figure it all out...the instructions are very easy to follow but when I got to the "Extract All" part that never came up?????? I might give it another try later on this week...good luck to me!! I would like to have all my ebooks in one place.